1. Carl Safina was born on May 23,1955 and is an American ecologist and author of books and other writings about the human relationship with the natural world.
11 Facts About Carl Safina
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Carl Safina's books include Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace; Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Song for the Blue Ocean; Eye of the Albatross; The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; Alfie and Me; and others.
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Carl Safina is the founding president of the Safina Center, and is inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University.
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Carl Safina received a degree in environmental science at the State University of New York at Purchase.
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Carl Safina's Voyage of the Turtle was a New York Times Editors' Choice.
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Carl Safina's work has been featured in National Geographic and in The New York Times and other publications.
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Carl Safina contributed a new foreword to Rachel Carson's seminal work, The Sea Around Us.
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Carl Safina is inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University.
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Carl Safina has been a visiting fellow at Yale University and a senior fellow with the World Wildlife Fund.
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Carl Safina is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Pew Fellow in Marine conservation, and a recipient of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo's Rabb Medal.
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Carl Safina was named among "100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century" by Audubon magazine.